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Sy’s travels
have taken
her all over
the world.
Here, she
cuddles with
a cheetah.
wanted to make more friends
who were different.
Montgomery grew up and
began to travel. In Australia,
she made friends with three
wild emus, large birds who
do not fly. In Africa, she met
a gorilla who let her watch
his babies play. When she
went to sleep in her tent, a
mother hippo fell asleep
Sy hugs her friend, a beside it! In Asia, she met an
giant Pacific octopus
named Octavia. orangutan who took off her
bathing suit cover-up. The
orangutan put it on herself before
As a child, Sy Montgomery knew that
her dog, Molly, was different from going back to the forest!
her. “She would follow things that I She met sharks in Mexico. She made
couldn’t smell,” she says. Montgomery friends with a tarantula, a spider the
could follow her dog and learn. She size of a chipmunk, in South America.
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